Soda taxes could cover 40 percent of Americans

Seven U.S. cities, from Philadelphia to San Francisco, have adopted so-called soda taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) since November 2014. Now researchers from Tufts and Harvard say they’ve identified three factors for success in such efforts, with the most important being Democratic dominance among residents. “Roughly 40 percent of Americans live within local jurisdictions where the… » Read More

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